Amsterdam-based news outlet NRC Handelsblad confirmed.
A pocket of dogged journalists still eschews digital recorders to record interviews on cassettes (or its downsized offspring, microcassettes). Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer who invented the cassette tape and helped develop the compact disc decades later, has died. Lou Ottens, who is credited with not only inventing the cassette tape but also helping develop the CD, died at his home in the Netherlands village of Duizel this month. Many Gen-X-ers hold on to their machines to play the mixtapes they made for themselves and their real or prospective romantic partners in the ’80s and ’90s. the breakthrough was made when ottens was working for dutch company philips. Ottens was premature in declaring his invention dead, however. lou ottens, the inventor of the cassette tape, has passed away at the age of 94. “I like when something new comes.” But he could afford to say that - he’d had a hand in developing what later became the CD, too, as far back as the 1970s. A structural engineer who trained at the prestigious Technical University in Delft, he joined Philips. Ottens died Saturday at age 94, Philips confirmed. “The cassette is history,” Ottens said in 2013. Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, the medium of choice for millions of bedroom mix tapes, has died, said Philips, the company where he also helped develop the compact disc. CDs began to take over in the mid-1980s, but cassettes held on long enough that, as late as 1993, the two formats had parity in the marketplace. Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer who invented the cassette tape and collaborated on the creation of the CD format, has died at the age of 94. Cassettes eventually overtook vinyl as a primary format as Walkman devices introduced on-demand audio that was truly on-the-go in every way for the first time. “Lou was the most difficult interview of my career thus far, but also my most cherished,” the filmmaker tweeted.Īlthough cassettes and 8-track players were in competition for car dashboards in the early 1970s, the fact that playing a cassette only required one changeover, much like its friend the vinyl LP, made it a clear winner. On Twitter, Taylor recalled that the engineer had proven a difficult subject for his doc. Ottens was notoriously unsentimental about his legacy and inventions. So next time you make that perfect playlist on Spotify or send a link to share a song, you can thank Lou Ottens.”
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“Cassettes taught us how to use our voice, even when the message came from someone else’s songs, compiled painstakingly on a mixtape.
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“Lou wanted music to be portable and accessible,” Zack Taylor, the maker of that film, told NPR. In the 2016 film “Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape,” Ottens said, “I expected it would be a success, not a revolution.”
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